[linux-audio-user] Denormal numbers

Markus Schwarzenberg schwarzb at ipms.fraunhofer.de
Thu Jul 31 06:20:01 EDT 2003


On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:09:39 +0200 Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:

> Hallo,
> Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote:
> 
> > Several people have asked me what denormal numbers are over the last few
> > weeks, well heres a much better description than my rambling head
> > scratching: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/denormal.ps
> > 
> > Its an extract from David Goldberg's article, "What Every Computer
> > Scientist Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic".
> 
> Intersting article. For those who like me wanted to get the full text:
> it's available at Citeseer: 
> 
> http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/253514.html
> 

btw, this seems to be another interesting source:

http://cch.loria.fr/documentation/IEEE754/index.html


Markus Schwarzenberg



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